“I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.” — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.” — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave then… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“You tried to change didn’t you? closed your mouth more tried to be softer prettier less volatile, less awake but even when… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“1. I’m lonely so I do lonely things 2. Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“i don't know when love became elusive what i know, is that no one i know has it my fathers arms around… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“... but you are always too intense frightening in the way you want him unashamed and sacrificial he tells you that no… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“With you, intimacy colours my voice. even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.” — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.” — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“the year of letting go, of understanding loss. grace. of the word ‘no’ and also being able to say ‘you are not kind’. the… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps? — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
And you tried to change, didnt you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake¦ You cant make homes… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft,… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“you were like an ulcer on the inside of my cheek that my tongue could not stop touching. loving you was like watching a… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“i give myself five days to forget you. on the first day i rust. on the second i wilt. on the third day i… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
